8x8 = 16x4 = 32x2 = 64
OR
play minecraft for 3 years straight

7, 14, ...21? uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

i'm not quite sure how that would work since pilgrimages and other long-distance travel was pretty normal, and there was no way to transfer information faster than said travel (especially not just to get papers on a random pilgrim).

as opposed to my very advanced ass

"yes sire he was a devout christian sire, but The Lord did not prevent me from shooting him, did He? Therefore it must be His will that he die by my hand."

copper would be the main problem, because there's a reason "cuprous" is basically the same word as "cyprus"..

Ironically iron is much easier to get your hands on than copper, it just requires some knowledge to turn into something useful. With copper you can just find it in a cliff if you're lucky, yank that out and hammer it into shape with a rock.

you're not completely incorrect, but you seem to have a very pop-sci picture of how the past worked.

If you suddenly appeared in the forest one day it's AFAIK perfectly possible that people would treat you as any immigrant, just go down to the church and get registered and everything will be just dandy so long as you can do some sort of work.

Depending on the precise time period, i wonder if you could manage it by using scented soap and insisting that people get sick because the surgeon's hands smell bad.

i think killed is a bit over the top, more like severely ridiculed and excluded.

I'd say the only thing you need to get electricity started is a civilization with sufficiently ready access to copper and lodestone that they're not luxury materials.

If you plop out in egypt or rome you can totally do it, it'll just be a matter of convincing people to let you try.
Get some copper wire, some flat-ish bits of lodestone, and follow this: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Simple-Electric-Generator Then you crank that soulja boy and find some way to show off the electricity, maybe just have it arc between the wire ends or make a frog leg twitch or something (assuming that doesn't just horrify people). Or just make two of this setup and wire them to each other, so you can show that spinning one end makes the other end spin as well.

Hopefully that'll make some people go "oh shit what if.."

which is why you should learn about medieval technology, that's something you can generally make from scratch with a team of workers.

Yeah if you only have stone tools it'll probably be shitty, but a shitty waterwheel that spins a shitty lathe is still plenty useful. It's kind of nuts how much luxury you can get in no time at all if you just know what's possible to make.

AFAIK it can still cause cancer no matter who you are, that's why i jumped on the offer for a free vaccine.